Regarding NEW and ftp-master approval

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-23 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> wrote:
> I just uploaded pre03, and I think it's time to think about how to get
> our package through NEW. There's been some comments about NEW processing
> on debian-devel in the last few days, but our package has only been in
> NEW for three days, and the top of the queue is only one month old.
> Complaining seldom helps, but we could try constructive ways. Any ideas?

> Another question is convincing the FTP-masters to allow cyrus-sasl-2.1
> into sid and then etch.

Hello,
That is not necessary. If it is accepted in experimental, a following
upload to sid without *more* newly introduced packages does not
require NEW processing and ftp-master acceptance. - ftp-master would
need to actively block it.

Anyway, you should only upload to sid if you are convinced the package
is good enough for etch. (As convinced as you can be without actually
having given it the wide testing only available in unstable. ;-)

> They might want to decide and do the NEW
> processing in one go. Let's try to put ourselves in the FTP-masters'
> shoes. What do we need to have done to start uploading to unstable? We
> definitely have to do some testing, but are there other things? Should
> we approach the FTP-masters first, or should we try to solve the issues
> we come up with first? Both have pros and cons.

Must haves:
* seamless upgrade. - Doesn't the upgrade to db4.4 require some
  handholding in the maintainerscripts? - Or does upstream's code
  itself automatically db-upgrade its data sorces?

* Known to build on more than ix86.
cu andreas
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